Addressing-machine



(No Model.)

E. D. HANNA. ADDRESSING MACHINE.

No. 514,863. Patented Feb. 6; 1894.

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ELDRIDGE HANNA, OF CLIFTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

ADDRESSING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 514,363, dated February 6, 1894. Application filed October 20, 1893. Serial No. 488,714. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELDRIDGE D. HANNA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clifton, in the county of Mason and State of Nest Virginia, have invented a new and useful Addressing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in.

addressing-machines; and the objects in view are to provide a machine adapted to rapidly address newspapers, pamphlets, books, and other matter; and to so construct the machine as to impress the address directly upon the wrapper thereof in lieu of upon labels, which would afterward have to be applied or pasted in position. 7

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings:-Figure l is a perspective view of an addressing-machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 isa vertical longitudinal sectional view through the same.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I employ any suitable framework, and in the present instance, I utilize the base Lwhich is nothing more than an oblong frame, and locate at opposite sides thereofside-frames 2. These opposits frames I provide adjacent to one end with transversely opposite bearin g 3 in which I mount for rotation a transverse shaft 4, one end of which projects beyond its bearing. This shaft between its bearings has mounted thereon a loose collar 5, and fixedly mounted thereon a large printing-wheel 6. The wheel 6 has its periphery provided at intervals with dovetailed grooves 7, and into these grooves are slid the blocks of electros of the addresses, or I may insert any style of block either of metal or of wood in which the type forming the address is set up. In the present instance, however, I have shown electro-blocks 8, the same having their sides dovetailed to fit the recesses 7 and adapted to be withdrawn endwise from the recesses and also inserted therein, and when inserted to expose their printin'g-faces above the rim of the wheel.

Arranged upon the outer end of the shaft 4 is a spur-gear 9, the. same being fast upon the shaft and adapted to rotate therewith and consequently with the printing-wheel 6.

A standard 10 is located at the side of the base in advance of the shaft 4 and is provided with a hearing, which is transversely opposite a similar bearing formed in the adjacent side-frame 2. In these hearings there is journaled for rotation a transverse shaft 11, which beyond the standard 10 is provided with a crank-handle 12, in this instance, the same being designed to be employed as a means for operating the machine by hand. It will be obvious, however, that a pulley may supersede the crank 12 and motion conveyed thereto and to the shaft by any suitable motor. I also arrange upon the shaft l1,between the standard 10 and the adjacent side-frame, a disk-wheel 13 which is provided with a lug la adapted to engage successively the teeth of the spur-gear 9. The inner end of the shaft 12 is provided with a crank-arm 15, and the same is by means of a connecting-rod 16 loosely connected with a rock-arm 17 which projects from a rock-shaft 18 journaled in the side-frames 2 adjacent to the base. The rockshaft 18 has secured thereto in line with the wheel 6 a curved rock-arm 19 which projects upwardly between the side-frames and is designed to move in and out of a slot 20 formed in the front edge of a table 21. The upper end of this arm 19 has aslot- 22 formed therein, and by means of set-screws 23 has adj ustably secured therein a tympan supportingframe 24, which is provided with one or more spring-fingers 25 for engaging with the newspaper, pamphlet or other matter to be addressed. Depending loosely from the collar 5 is a rock-arm 27, and the same is provided with a horizontal bearing upon which is loosely mounted an inking-rol128. A curved connecting-rod 29 is loosely engaged with the rock-arm 27 and with the rock-arm 1'7. This completes the construction of the addressing machine, and the operation of the sameis as followsz-The crank 11 being turned it will be seen that the wheel 13 will be rotated thereby, and in its rotation will through the medium of its inner crank-arm 15 oscillate the rock-shaft 18 by reason of the connections between the crank-arm and the rock-arm 17 of said shaft. This oscillation upon the part of the rock-shaft 18 swings the arm 19 in and out of the slot 20, or in other words, from the table 21 into contact with the printing periphery of the wheel 6, it being understood that at each backward movement of the tympan carrying frame a wrapped newspaper, pamphlet, or other printed matter is inserted under the spring-fingers thereof. It will be seen that at each revolution of the shaft 11 the tympan-frame, swings back and forth so that a pamphlet or newspaper is addressed .thereby, it being understood that at each backward movement a new pamphlet or paperis inserted by the attendants, the pamphlets or papers being conveniently supported on the table 21. Each rotation of the shaft lland the wheel 13 brings the lug 14: of the latter into engagement with a tooth on the wheel 9 thus moving the wheel 9 and its shaft together with the printing-wheel the distance of one tooth which brings a new address opposite the tympani-frame 24:. The oscillations of the rock-shaft cause the rock-arm 27 to swing the same, being secured through the medium of the connecting-rod 29, and during such movement the inking-roller is caused to contact with the inking-table 30 and rotated over the type. It will be understood that one attendant stands at that side of the wheel opposite which the tympan-supporting frame is located and as fast as the wheel rotates he removes one of the electros or type-carrying blocks and inserts a new address so that the latter are constantly changing and new ones are always presented to the tympan supporting-frame.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawings it will be seen that I have provided a very simple machine adapted to accurately, conveniently, and rapidly address newspapers, pamphlets, and other matter of a similar nature, and that I apply an address directly to the wrapper, thus avoiding the necessity of employing labels for this purpose and pasting the same in position.

I do not limit my invention to the precise details of construction herein shown and described, but hold that I may vary the same to any degree and extent within the knowledge of the skilled mechanic.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In an addressing-machine, the combination with the opposite frames, the transverse shaft, the printing-wheel, loose collar, and spur-gear arranged upon the shaft of the power-shaft, the disk arranged thereon and having a lug engaging the spur-gear, acrank at the inner end of the power-shaft, a rockshaft, an arm carriedby the rock-shaft, atympan supporting-frame arranged upon the arm a rock-arm arranged upon the rock-shaft, a connectingrod between the rock-arm and the crank-arm of the power-shaft, an ink-table below the printing-wheel, a rock-arm depending from the loose collar of the printing-wheel supporting shaft, an ink-roller carried by said arm, and a connecting-rod between said arm and the rock-arm of the rock-shaft, substantially as specified.

2. In an addressing-machine, the combination with a framework having asuperimposed slotted table, a rock-shaft arranged below the table, meansfor oscillating the rock-shaft, a rock-arm arranged upon the rock-shaft, and a tympan supporting-frame at the upper end of the rock-arm, of a printing-wheel arranged in the path of the rock-arm, and means for intermittently rotating the latter, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ELDRIDGE D. HANNA.

Witnesses:

W. H. SHAW, J os. H. HOLLOWAY. 

